The WATCH List – Who’s Achieved Their Career Highs This Week

You know the drill by now, right? Please tell my you know the drill by now; I don’t want to have to explain the drill again. Ah, well. *copies and pastes last week’s explanation in a fit of laziness*

This here list comes out every Monday and consists of Who’s Achieved Their Career Highs (acronym: WATCH, geddit?) that particular week for those players ranked between 80-350 in the world (since that’s the level at which most challenger competitors are ranked, you see). If you’re interested in people ranked higher than #80, then you’re a) at the wrong site and b) gonna hafta wait for the lazy layabouts over at Shank Tennisto publish their look at rankings for the week. We sort of do this thing in tandem, you know. With absolutely no planning or interaction whatsover (which only makes it more impressive – kind of like a blind person driving).

Here’s this week’s list:

Player

NATIONALITY

New High

Prev High

Why?

Somdev Devvarman

INDIA

80

94

F Jo’burg

Milos Raonic

CANADA

84

94

R2 Jo’burg

Rui Machado

PORTUGAL

85

87

R2 Santiago

Jesse Huta Galung

NETHERLANDS

112

116

R2 Jo’burg

Izak Van der Merwe

SOUTH AFRICA

141

154

SF Jo’burg

Jerzy Janowicz

POLAND

149

157

SF Courmayeur

Tatsuma Ito

JAPAN

162

175

SF Burnie

Matthias Bachinger

GERMANY

163

167

SF Courmayeur

Bastian Knittel

GERMANY

167

169

R2 Courmayeur

Robert Farah

COLOMBIA

184

185

Others lost points

Augustin Gensse

FRANCE

185

189

Others lost points

Nikola Ciric

SERBIA

193

194

Others lost points

Marius Copil

ROMANIA

205

279

W Kazan

Jurgen Zopp

ESTONIA

211

219

QF Kazan

Sebastian Rieschick

GERMANY

228

232

R2 Courmayeur

Facundo Bagnis

ARGENTINA

238

242

R1 Santiago

Laurent Rochette

FRANCE

240

244

R1 Courmayeur

Fernando Romboli

BRAZIL

244

245

Others lost points

Alexander Lobkov

RUSSIA

253

255

R2 Kazan

Fritz Wolmarans

SOUTH AFRICA

255

261

R2 Jo’burg

Romain Jouan

FRANCE

258

263

R2 Courmayeur

Amir Weintraub

ISRAEL

259

263

Others lost points

Phillip Bester

CANADA

268

270

R2 Burnie

Clement Reix

FRANCE

270

271

R1 Courmayeur

Jonathan Eysseric

FRANCE

276

297

F France F1

Ilya Belyaev

RUSSIA

277

284

QF Kazan

Maxime Teixeira

FRANCE

283

314

W France F1

Pablo Carreno-Busta

SPAIN

300

319

F Spain F3

Daniel Cox

GREAT BRITAIN

323

325

Others lost points

Rodrigo Guidolin

BRAZIL

350

352

R2 Brazil F6

Joshua Milton

GREAT BRITAIN

353

354

Others lost points

Laurynas Grigelis

LITHUANIA

366

398

QF Courmayeur

Dusan Lajovic

SERBIA

378

403

R1 Zagreb

I extended my arbitrary list parameters beyond the Top 350 this week so I could include Laurynas Grigelis and Dusan Lajovic, simply because I like them. It’s my list, and I can extend it if I want to.

Do I have any stunning list analysis? Not really. Feeling kind of listless today, really. But obviously the fallout from the Jo’burg draw having so many Challenger warriors (and ATP neophytes) advancing past the first round had big repercussions at the top of the list (and into the Top 80).

Anyway, it’s a pretty long list. You’re probably tired from reviewing it all. So I’ll let it speak for itself this week. If you spot any errors or omissions, please let me know in the comments as always. Thanks!

On edit: Hmmm. I should point out the abundance of young ‘uns on this week’s list, as it’s fairly noteworthy – lots of guys around 20 years old on this one. It also occurs to me that I should start putting “Age” as a column on the list. Maybe next week. In the meantime: Raonic, Janowicz, Copil, Bagnis, Lobkov, Eysseric, Belyaev, Cox, and Lajovic are all 20 years old. Carreno-Busta and Grigelis are 19.